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Waiting for cricket
Ambling around Adelaide, fingers fervently crossed at the prospect of slipping into the final test match at the Oval. The twenty-sixth of January, our Republic Day, is also Australia Day. The Advertiser, a newspaper whose name suggests an unblushing commitment to its priorities, asks its readers about their holiday plans. Tenille Aberle from Mawson Lakes […]
Life by the Lake
May 13, 2011
Taking a stroll around Lake Zurich, watching ordinary people do ordinary things. All these years of air travel after, there’s still the suggestion of science fiction about being in Chennai one Wednesday afternoon, struggling to squeeze everything into hand baggage while remembering to empty the refrigerator, and finding yourself, a day later, strolling beside Lake […]
Chennai to Bangkok
March 13, 2008
EASTERN PROMISES MAR 14, 2008 – WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT THE MAKINGS OF A GOOD JOURNALIST, the qualities that usually come up are resourcefulness or interpersonal skills or a burning desire to dig into the bottom of things. But on a recent trip to Thailand, I had to draw from my wellspring of that other […]
A Kodaikanal Weekend
June 12, 2007
 ZEST LA VIE In which I find out how different a vacation in ho-hum Kodaikanal can be… JUNE 10, 2007 – SOMETHING CURIOUS HAPPENS when you bite into mint chutney sandwiches in the middle of a forest â while squatting on an outcropping of rock on a trickle of a stream, and surrounded by […]
Baradwaj Rangan 
February 3, 2012
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